Chapter 434: The Strange Airliner (Page 1/1)

After reading it, Lily didn't understand it, but it seemed a little interesting.

Recently, Su Mu has been saying that he is bored at home every day, and sometimes he holds a few books for most of the day, which is very easy, but it is a pity that the days are inevitably boring.

There is no pursuit, this is probably the daily life of the rich, the wealth reaches a certain point, and the money loses too much meaning, but in addition to money, there is nothing else to pursue, it is nothing more than walking around and being tormented by some trivial things.

Some time ago, Blake resigned, and Su Mu took the initiative to take over the CEO position of Penguin Apple, simply to find something to do for himself.

So, she told Su Mu about this interesting project, and by the way, she also introduced Elon Musk, only saying that she had just met.

Su Mu had an impression of this name, and looked at the young white man in front of him again, originally thought that his "butterfly wings" were too powerful, and directly fanned this guy away, he didn't expect that fate was so wonderful that he could meet him.

It was free time to talk, and the award ceremony had not yet begun, and after Su Mu looked at the strange aircraft on the drawing, he asked curiously: "Why do you want to make this style of passenger civilian aircraft?"

"That's right, just leave the civilian planes and fighter jets to the arms dealers to make them. My team designed it this way because I wanted an aircraft that was more advanced and would have a lot less chance of crashes, and this drawing would help me make my dream come true!" said Elon Musk.

Cast your gaze on the drawing again.

It is not accurate to say that it is triangular, the shape is more like the manta ray in the fish tank of the Su Mujia family, and the shape is close to the B-2 bomber that just entered service in April this year, with a flying wing structure.

Flying wing aircraft are no news in the aviation world, and many companies have tried them after World War II, the most typical success story is the B-2 stealth bomber, which the Pentagon has confirmed to procure.

In the 50s and 60s, the limitations of aeronautical materials and flight control technology led to the stillbirth of many flying-wing airliner plans.

Although the flying-wing aircraft theoretically had more advantages, the aircraft was now produced as it was known, and when the B-2 bomber appeared, people once again paid attention to the passenger aircraft with take-off wing structures, and he did not expect that someone would come to him with drawings to seek investment.

"You should go to Boeing, or Airbus of France, I don't have any experience in producing airplanes, and the investment must be very large," Sumu told him. ”

"I think you're the same kind of person as me, and you like to challenge yourself with new things.

From the perspective of business prospects, 45 to 60 percent of an airline's expenditure is fuel, and its aerodynamic layout is destined to greatly reduce this part of the loss, plus the internal space is very large, it can be designed as two floors, with a total of about 600 to 800 seats, and the profit earned from flying is much higher than that of other planes now, plus even if the engine is out of control, it can float in the air for a long distance, which is enough to support finding the airport, or making a forced landing directly on the water!"

Elon Musk avoided the important and trivialized, and after his grand plan was born, the first one went to the head of the design department of Boeing, who was not interested at all, and other companies were not interested either, mainly because the investment of more than half a billion dollars was too high, but the profit prospects were not guaranteed.

After hitting the wall a few times, I finally learned the experience, did not say that the super high R&D funds, nor how difficult it was to manufacture, and first threw the business prospects to Su Mu.

This has really had an effect, carrying hundreds of passengers at a time, and improving energy savings and safety, which seems to be more marketable.

Su Mu didn't know anything about this industry at all, but out of personal interest, he didn't say anything directly, and told him: "Let's talk about it later, this drawing is too simple, it's hard for me to believe that you can succeed, I need to ask an expert to make an assessment, OK?"

This is the first potential investor in the past two months who did not reject Musk outright, and if there is anything dissatisfied, he immediately replied to him: "OK, this is my business card, just call me when you have time, the drawings are left with you, and I still have a backup ......"

Since he had money in his hand, the business projects that he wanted Su Mu to invest in were strange, and Musk's flying wing structure passenger aircraft project was already relatively reliable.

Those arms giants often invest hundreds of millions, or even more than one billion dollars, in research because of competition for an order, and the speed of burning money is comparable to that of pharmaceutical R&D giants.

The amount of money is so large that Su Mu must keep calm, think carefully about whether there is a need to invest, he has high expectations for the future development prospects of his companies, to really invest billions of dollars, it is not a completely unacceptable thing, in the final analysis, it is still a profit......

After Governor Wilson's speech, the award-winning Gates took the stage first to analyze the current situation in Silicon Valley, and the topic was discussed for the entrepreneurs themselves, and the content was not bad.

Immediately afterwards, Su Mu also came to the stage, stood in front of the microphone with the trophy on his face, and said: "Mr. Gates is almost done with everything I want to say, so I have to change my perspective and discuss the recent troubles in Silicon Valley from other issues."

As we all know, Californians love innovation, and the people who are most enthusiastic about innovation are concentrated in Silicon Valley, and the most important thing in Silicon Valley is talent and innovation, followed by capital. In my opinion, the reason for the recent problems in Silicon Valley is not that there is less talent, or that the corporate culture is no longer strong, but that the real reason is that after the bursting of the Internet bubble, capital is no longer keen to invest in Silicon Valley, especially in small start-up companies. ”

"Silicon Valley was able to grow because it was a region that brought together resources and business needs and innovation, with some companies providing viable products and companies providing funding. Now that there is a problem with funding, the most important thing we need to do is to continue to prove the strength of our Silicon Valley, and when many companies prove that they can bring benefits to investors now or in the future, I believe that capital will come to Silicon Valley again.

At present, we need to maintain the atmosphere of R&D and innovation, retain talents, in the past, more companies could not get financing opportunities, but now it is much better, survive the last two or three years, another good time for Silicon Valley to flourish will come, small and medium-sized enterprises in Silicon Valley, now need to let large enterprises to help, I will personally come up with a billion dollars again, set up an angel investment department......"

Read the URL: m.